National Institutes of Health (NIH)
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH)
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Purpose

This Notice
clarifies the intent of the Service Core component of RFA-OD-11-003,
Specialized Centers of Research (SCOR) on Sex Differences (P50).

For this FOA,
the purpose of the Service Core is defined as follows:

Section I.
Funding Opportunity Description

1. Research
Objectives

Description
of a SCOR

The Service
Core is tasked with efficiently and effectively providing subprojects with
access to research resources, and translating and disseminating results to
broader research and practitioner communities as scientifically appropriate.
The Service Core, if included, should contain a cogent plan for professional
mentorship of postdoctoral and/or early stage investigators that would be
involved in one or more of the subprojects and how these efforts would be
coordinated across projects and across sites.

The rest of
the Description of a SCOR section and all other aspects of this FOA remain
unchanged.